The Way Used by Teachers to Overcome the Difficulties in Implementing The Way the Teacher of SMA Negeri 1 Surakarta Acquire and Develop

4. The Way Used by Teachers to Overcome the Difficulties in Implementing

the GBA in the Process of Teaching English. The following table is the summary of issues arises based on the how the teachers to conquer the difficulties in implementing the GBA in the process of teaching English. Table 4. 4. Issues Arising based on How to Overcome Difficulties the Teachers Faced in Implementing the GBA Research Question Issues arise How do the teachers overcome the difficulties in implementing the GBA in the process of teaching English? · Strategies of teaching and learning text types · Study hard, share with other teachers · Participate in the MGMP meetings In solving the problems faced by the students and the teachers mentioned above, Teacher AS pointed that: “As teachers we have to find the way out to solve the problems, whether the problems from the students or and also from the teacher himherself”. Teacher AS suggest the following statements as the ways to solve the problems: 1 Using various of strategies in the process of teaching and learning text types; 2 Study hard, and share with the other teachers; and 3 Participate in the MGMP meetings, workshops, and read more books concerning to the genre approach. In anticipating the teachers’ problems, Teacher AS commented that the teachers have to join the Revitalization Program and the MGMP meeting each month. There, teachers can acquire information, explanations about how to teach English using new method, especially on the use of GBA. The Revitalization Program is done to anticipate the difficulties faced by the teachers in the teaching of English. In this opportunity, the teachers can share their experiences, or problems in the teaching of English with the other teachers.

5. The Way the Teacher of SMA Negeri 1 Surakarta Acquire and Develop

Knowledge about Genre-based Approach. The following table is the summary of issues arises based on the teachers of SMA Negeri 1 Surakarta acquires and develops knowledge about GBA Table4.5 Issues Arising based on How Teachers Acquire and Develop Knowledge about GBA Problem Question Issues arise The way the teacher of SMA Negeri 1 Surakarta acquire and develop knowledge about GBA · Workshops in region level, and school level, MGMP meetings each month, and Revitalization program. · Share with other English teachers. · Search materials from Books and Internet There are many ways the teachers of English in SMA Negeri 1 Surakarta can acquire knowledge about the GBA. Teacher AS said that the use of GBA since the implementation of ‘KBK’ curriculum or since 2004 until nowadays. When the curriculum was introduced, the teachers are always trained not only of the curriculum, but also approaches to use in implementing the curriculum. The teachers were trained concerning to the implementation of ‘ KBK ’ and KTSP curriculum and also the use of GBA. It was carried out by “ Lembaga Penjamin Mutu Pendidikan LPMP” Central Java Province. Sejak diterapkannya KBK dan sampai sekarang, saya menggunakan GBA dalam penerapan KTSP, saya menerapkannya dalam pembelajaran bahasa Inggris, karena menurut saya pendekatan itu sangat baik. Besides the teachers’ training by ‘ LPMP’, the teachers also acquire the knowledge about GBA from Revitalization Program, MGMP meetings that conducted each Tuesday every week. The English teachers named Tuesday as the ‘ MGMP Day’, because at that day, all schools have no schedule of the English subject. The other sources that the teachers acquire knowledge about the use of GBA are from lecturers of UNES , and also from other teachers who have implemented this approach. According to Teacher AS, besides acquiring knowledge from educational training or workshops, MGMP meeting and from lecturers, the teacher also acquire from reading books dealing with the use of GBA in the teaching of English. The teachers also have to access journals from internet about the implementation of this approach to enrich their knowledge in the teaching of English using GBA. Pengetahuan tentang GBA diperoleh dari penataran yang diadakan oleh LPMP Lembaga Penjamin Mutu Pendidikan Jawa Tengah. Program Revitalisasi, pertemuan-pertemuan MGMP Musyawarah Guru Mata Pelajaran, dari dosen yang biasa memberi penataran, dan juga dari teman-teman yang sudah menerapkan pendekatan ini.

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